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FBCB2-BFT Evolving To Battle Command SystemBy Ann Roosevelt

Northrop Grumman’s [NOC] Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) is moving far beyond the original concept of a situa-tional awareness tool toward a battle command system, a company official said. Recent advances include the next-generation software, called Joint Capabilities Release (JCR), that is undergoing formal Army testing.

“Our experiences in Iraq underscored the importance of creating a joint FBCB2/BFT solution acceptable to the Marine Corps and the Army,” Joe Taylor, vice president of the Ground Combat Systems operating unit within Northrop Grumman’s Information Systems sector, said. “The serv-ices reached an agreement on a common set of requirements almost five years ago. To converge on JCR is a pretty big deal. Once they go through this fielding process then you’ll have both organizations on the same sys-tem.”

JCR offers a significant increase in network bandwidth, allowing the system to move more information to more users within seconds rather than minutes.

It is also compatible with all the FBCB2 BFT tracking equipment that’s out there, some 85,000 systems now worldwide.

The JCR will continue planned tests through 2010, fielding in con-junction with the newly-awarded production contract for an improved Blue Force Tracking 2 (BFT2) transceiver with full encryption and lower latency. Additionally, this summer, the Army awarded Northrop Grumman an $18 million increment of a potential $300 million contract to provide encryption devices to upgrade the communications security of FBCB2-BFT. The software is fully compatible with JCR.

“It’s a new way of utilizing the satellite that allows much, much lower latency and much higher bandwidth,” Taylor said.

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“The FBCB2-BFT evolution began with the first Gulf War, where U.S. forces maneuver had navi-gation difficulties, making the best of a variety of GPS devices,” he said.

“I think it was that experience which drove home the importance of knowing where we are indi-vidually and collectively--and display that somehow--then that would be a powerful combat multiplier for us going forward for us,” Taylor said.

This gave impetus to FBCB2 development at about the same time the Army was redefining its role in the world. That experimentation was embraced by the Army through the Force XXI experiments lead-ing to the FBCB2 acquisition decision.

“It became pretty clear that situational awareness was key to the maneuver battle,” he said. Leading up to the next war in Iraq, the Army planned a move to satellite, because FM communi-

cations were very limited.“You’re maneuvering so fast and over such great distances that you had real trouble maintain-

ing those communications,” Taylor said. “It was a reliable mechanism to connect all of these maneuvers forces.”

The messaging capability of BFT became a powerful tool.“As soon as you start doing message traffic over a situation awareness tool, it’s really becoming a

C2 tool…What has happened subsequent to the war, the new developments, JCR, JBCP are all designed to make this satellite-based situational awareness tool an evermore complete command and control mech-anism for battle command,” Taylor said.

That argues for an open architecture, Northrop Grumman’s concept to create a system of systems open architecture that would allow plug and play of communication means, sensor arrays, and interoper-ability with other software systems.

“The creation of a software design based upon core assets, easily exploitable by other applications, was as important as the decision to go joint,” he said.

For the future, the drivers are bandwidth, latency and flexible software, he said. The future for FBCB2 BFT is the Joint Battle Command Platforms (JBCP), being developed by

the Software Engineering Directorate (SED) in Huntsville, Ala. This could incorporate mounted, dis-mounted and aviation forces into FBCB2-BFT.

“If our past is any guide, we will do a lot of modifications to JCR as JBC-P is being developed,” he said.

Going forward, there are questions for the Army to consider. Flexibility in managing the band-width and adapting to available communications will be important.

“The key to any of the most useful software designs, is the extent that you can make it integration and communications agnostic,” he said. “The more agnostic you make it, the greater the likelihood you can deal with any mission in the time available.”

For more than a decade Northrop Grumman followed this development model on FBCB2, “mov-ing over a few short years from FM to satellites to software defined radio systems required great flexibil-ity and adaptability; it had to be agnostic from the jump,” Taylor said. n

VT Miltope Offers Next-Gen Rugged Computer Family

VT Systems Inc.,’s VT Miltope today revealed a new family of ruggedized computer products at the Association of the United States Army annual conference that represent the next generation of mission critical rugged computers, HARD WEAR™, for difficult military environments.

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With the launch of its newest rugged family, which includes clamshell laptops, convertible laptops, handhelds, and mounted computers, VT Miltope now has a full spectrum of ruggedized mobile computing solutions and form factors that meet the growing mission and application needs of today’s military.

“Our military is on the forefront of technological development, and one of our biggest challenges is in the management of critical information,” VT Milope President and CEO Tom Dickinson, said. VT Miltope developed a new family of HARD WEAR™ computers to provide robust and rugged comput-ing platforms to meet those challenges...They are designed and built tough, inside and out, to support our soldiers in the most challenging environmental conditions imaginable.”

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U.K. Creates Group To Redeploy Defense Skills In Light of Cuts

U.K. Business Secretary Vince Cable said a new industry-led group has been created to ensure that high value skills in the defense sector can be effectively redeployed where there are industrial changes as a result of the Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR).

The Skills and Jobs Retention Group will be chaired by Allan Cook, the current chairman of Sector Skills Council for Science, Engineering and Manufacturing Technologies (SEMTA), and the former CEO of the defense company Cobham.

The group will explore how skilled workers can be retained in the advanced manufacturing sector by working with industry to redeploy affected employees to other sectors such as civil aerospace, automotive, energy and marine.

The SDSR expects to cut some 8 percent from the defense budget, while continuing to deliver national security both effectively and efficiently in a tough economic climate.

The review included difficult decisions that will have industrial implications but it also reinforced the importance of the relationship with industry.

The Ministry of Defence still expects to spend close to $95 billion with U.K. suppliers over the next four years.

The purchase of two aircraft carriers maintains the U.K.’s ability to design and build complex war-ships, including the next generation of frigates. This will sustain some 20,000 jobs in U.K. shipbuilding and see investment of around $16 billion over the next 10 years.

Cable said: “the government recognizes the important contribution that the defense sector makes to the wider economy through high value jobs, intellectual property rights, export revenues and as a key spon-sor of apprenticeships and training. I want to ensure that wherever possible we retain the talented individu-als leaving the defence industry within the U.K.’s advanced manufacturing sector…”

Atkins Chairman Allan Cook, chairman of SEMTA said: “The U.K. cannot compete internationally without highly skilled workers developing engineering solutions and building new products, so it is vital for future economic growth that we do all that we can to retain these skills within the advanced engineering and manufacturing sectors.”

The industry led-group group will be made up of a small team of senior industry figures with experi-ence in defense and advanced engineering and manufacturing. It will be supported by the Department for Business Innovation and Skills.

The group will provide a forum for companies across U.K. manufacturing and engineering to work together to make the most of the skills that may become available for redeployment. n

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ATK Receives Green Light For Full-Rate Production On New AmmoBy Ann Roosevelt

The ATK [ATK] Armaments group has received the green light from the Army for full-rate produc-tion for nearly 300 million rounds for the new Enhanced Performance Round (EPR), a top official said.

“It’s a higher velocity round, it’s got some improved accuracy and it also has some improved penetration,” Armament Group President Karen Davies told Defense Daily in an interview. “The biggest issue we’ve been trying to solve jointly with the Army, [is that this is] a round that works against multiple targets and that the soldier can rely no matter what situation he’s in it’s going to do its job.”

The M855A1 EPR is an enhanced version of the M855 5.56mm cartridge used by U.S. troops since the early 1980s.

ATK’s Lake City Army Ammunition Plant in Independence, Mo., pro-duced the initial 20 million EPR rounds, which were delivered to the troops in Afghanistan earlier this year.

Before becoming group president, Davies was vice president and general manager of small caliber systems and ran Lake City.

Under the April ATK reorganization of ATK, Davies took on a broader range of products that were previously split across the company, to include preci-sion weapons and higher-end munitions and technology rounds.

“The marriage has been outstanding,” Davies said. “The interplay between those businesses now is excellent. We can take the best of both worlds…We can take our production businesses, which needed some technology and they have the resources now to do that, and then we can take that technology business and introduce how you transition production and viably deliver a product that works every time, quickly.”

The company and group are very metric-driven, and track things such as reducing scrap rates, and the time between development and production and ensuring products produced work the first time.

“We talk a lot about the fact all of the products we produce, they may come in great volume to us but we can’t get numb to the fact that every single one of them needs to work,” Davies said. “A lot of us have loved ones either in the services or have been so we feel very close to the fact that their life might depend on when they pull the trigger the round goes off.”

Those same concerns can be seen in ATK’s non-standard ammunition effort. On Friday, ATK received additional orders worth $10 million for non-standard ammunition in sup-

port of its current multi-year contract. The three-year contract calls for ATK to acquire and deliver a vari-ety of ammunition, mortars, RPG munitions, aviation rockets and non-standard weapons, to Afghanistan to train and sustain allied security forces (Defense Daily, June 15, Oct. 13, 2009).

“We’ve delivered about 220 million items…and we’ve been an average of 30 days ahead on all our deliveries,” Davies said. “We’ve done that by choosing good suppliers and making sure they understood what our requirements were--which were what the U.S. Army wants--and then we have disciplines in place to follow up and monitor their quality, their testing procedures so we know now that what we’re delivering for the Afghan security forces to use is going to work.”

ATK teamed with the ADVS (UK) Limited to develop two new turrets, the Modular Remote Turret and the Light Weight Remote Turret, with their own internal research and development funds. Using the medium caliber weapon system--chain gun family--with turret designs, “we have solved the problem com-peting turrets have,” she said.


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ATK’s MRT system is fielded with the ADVS vehicles delivering some vehicles directly to Kuwait with the turret mounted.

“It takes our chain gun and it gives you the capability to load those guns completely under armor,” Davies said. Many systems today expose soldiers when they need to reload, as they are above the hatch.

“This then gives the soldier protection because they can load and not be in harm’s way. We’ve designed it so that a lot of the moving parts, the chain, the ammunition feeding system, are enclosed.”

This reduces the potential of weather and environmental effects jamming the system. The turrets are designed to integrate onto almost any combat vehicle, whether tracked or wheeled.

This would be a depot-level modification. With tighter defense budgets predicted, upgrades rather than new vehicles may be a future focus.

Davies said, “We think we’ve hit a nice sweet spot both in the weight of the turret and the open archi-tecture…where we can mount it on a lot of different land vehicles. We’ve designed it with the thought that it needs to be very cost competitive.” n

Radios Moving Toward Software-defined Devices, Harris Official SaysBy Ann Roosevelt

Harris Corp. [HRS] is delivering software-defined tactical radios built on the Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) enterprise business model, but a top company official says the future is likely to hold some-thing beyond radios.

“What we really see is not a radio but a device, a software-defined device, that can meet the opera-tional needs that a soldier has at a particular moment in time,” Dennis Moran, vice president, Government Business Development, Harris RF Communications, said in an interview. “There are some times that I want it to communicate, there are some times when I want it to be an [intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance] ISR device, a sensor, and there’s maybe some times that I want it to be a jammer.”

That vision is already being considered by some Department of Defense users, he said. They would like a software-defined device where all they have to do is put in the waveform for what

they want to do, and then execute it. This goes to Moran’s point that the latest Harris AN/PRC 117G software-defined tactical radio is

nothing more than a computer with a radio transmitter on it. With a computer and applications, the device can do what is needed, and at the same time, “the

device will also be the soldier’s direct input/output and access to the network,” he said. “Either tethered to or integrated into this device will be some type of very simple input-output

device where my applications reside and so it will really represent just a seamless integration of the applica-tion with the transport capability to communicate to the network or the sensor that I need to either listen to a signal or if I need to create an environment of jamming around myself I’ll be able to do it,” Moran said. “It’s a software-defined device, multi-missioned, multi-function that has very simple input-output soldier interface capability.”

Harris already is enabling that vision.

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“That’s where we think it’s going to go, that’s where we’re moving our [internal research and develop-ment] IRAD, that’s the products that we see that are going to be needed in the future.”

At the same time, that product is not going to come from a program of record, he said. “That’s why you need an architecture like JTRS enterprise business model to allow those kinds of innovations to come to market.”

The JTRS enterprise business model allows companies to translate the 23-point memo from Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics (AT&L) Ashton Carter into competitive products.

“I think you’ve just got to unleash industry and let them bring products,” Moran said. For example, Harris’ Falcon III® AN/PRC-117G can run the JTRS Wideband Networking

Waveform (WNW) and JTRS Soldier Radio Waveform (SRW) in addition to its own Harris Advanced Networking Wideband Waveform (ANW2), because it adheres to the JTRS enterprise business model, and complies with the JTRS Software Communications Architecture and meets most of the JTRS requirements today.

This also allows Harris to quickly meet warfighter needs. For example, the AN/PRC-117G was quickly made compatible with the ROVER waveform, allowing soldiers in the field to receive UAV ISR video feeds.

With the addition of Mission Modules to the 117G, Harris can add a second wideband radio chan-nel, high-frequency (HF) radio channel, and an ISR module.

Company innovation and its business model allow Harris to stay in touch with what users want and then deliver capability quickly, Moran said.

Simultaneously, he said, “We’re focused on interoperability, we’re focused on architecture and we





want to stay within the parameters the Department of Defense gives to us as far as what’s the envelope we need to operate in.

Moran wants DoD to “give us that envelope, be rigorous about your interoperability standards and let us bring things to market that make sense. Give us the opportunity to compete. And trust me, if you give us the opportunity to compete, you’re going to see reduction in price, you’re going to see an increase in innovation, you’re going to see increase in speed of delivery.” n

Raytheon MTS Sensor System Exceeds 1 Million Flight HoursBy Ann Roosevelt

Raytheon’s [RTN] airborne Multi-Spectral Targeting System (MTS) has exceeded one million opera-tional hours, a company official said.

“We’re at a million operational hours and we’re at 1,000 systems,” said Andy Bonnot, product line director for Space and Airborne Systems Surveillance & Targeting Systems at Raytheon.

That’s a 10-fold increase from August 2005, when Raytheon delivered its 100th MTS system, and had approximately 100,000 hours of fielded operations.

The MTS is an advanced electro-optical/infrared (EO/IR) system that provides long-range surveil-lance, high-altitude target acquisition, tracking, range finding, and laser designation for all laser guided munitions.

The MTS production line has been integrated on more than 16 platforms, across a broad customer base, Bonnot said during a teleconference.

The product line, initially responding to a military need, has expanded. The initial sensor, MTS A, was developed with the Air Force for the MQ-1 Predator unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), Bonnot said. Now it has moved to the Navy’s MH-60, and a derivative is in production for the Army, where it is known as the Common Sensor Platform. Other MTS A derivatives are carried on international platforms.

The MTS A is about 15-inch diameter sensor, smaller than MTS B.The MTS system has migrated to the MQ-9 Reaper, in partnership with Air Force and General

Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Bonnot said. The primary sensor on the Reaper is the MTS B, an “outstand-ing stand-off observation sensor.”

MTS B is also being provided to the Customs and Border Patrol for their version of the Reaper, and other special customers.

The sensor is integrated on aircraft such as the MC-130 and a derivative such as the Q2, developed for special operations, is flown on rotary wing platforms.

Raytheon also is under contract with Northrop Grumman [NOC] for the Broad Area Maritime Surveillance (BAMS) system, which is essentially a marinized version of a Global Hawk UAV that the Navy is developing, Bonnor said. An MTS B type sensor will be used. n

Army Releases 2011 Business Transformation Plan

The Army’s effort to manage resources for the best results is outlined in the 2011 Business Transformation Plan released last week.

The plan is to increase savings, reduce costs, improve performance and create efficiencies. The plan from the Office of Business Transformation (OBT) under the guidance of Under Secretary of



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In the forward, Westphal said he was confident the plan “will result in real institutional management reform.”

The 122-page plan details the Army’s business transformation goals, objectives, priority initiatives, and management reform efforts.

The effort includes the Business Transformation Plan, which outlines the strategic framework and vision to align the Army’s institutional management with the Force Generation (ARFORGEN) capabili-ties, the institutional integration approach, and enterprise implementation plan.

For example, in an effort to make the generating force as expeditionary as the operating force, the Army linked end-to-end business processes, conducted detailed data modeling, and analyzed war costs, which allowed the service to experience $3.5 billion in cost avoidance and $2.1 billion in cost savings in fis-cal years 2009 and 2010, the document said.

Lean Six Sigma is described as the Army’s tool of choice to increase quality, efficiency, and effective-ness while reducing cycle time and variance.

“Since 2006, we have completed 5,287 projects generating significant financial and operational ben-efits,” the plan said. “There are an additional 1,909 projects are under way.”

Additionally, the plan stated that in 2009 the Army submitted $96.6 million worth of projects in an Office of Management and Budget inquiry to support President Barack Obama’s $100 million savings goal.



DuPont Launches Kevlar ® XPtm For Hard Armor

DuPont [DD] said Friday it launched Kevlar® XP™ for Hard Armor to provide extra protection and extra performance in ballistic applications.

The product is initially targeted for military and police helmets, and tactical plates used in ballistic protective vests.

An Advanced Combat Helmet (ACH) used by the U.S. military today can weigh almost four pounds, the company said. DuPont™ Kevlar® XP™ for Hard Armor provides a half-pound reduction in weight, reducing some of the load and stress on soldiers and Marines moving in harsh environments.

For other helmet and tactical plate designs, Kevlar® XP™ for Hard Armor can offer 20-percent higher ballistic performance and increased protection, without sacrificing other performance requirements, the company said.

“DuPont is committed to protecting people around the world through science-based innovations,” said Thomas Powell, president-- DuPont Protection Technologies. “The U.S. military was looking for a lighter weight helmet option and DuPont developed this new product in less than a year. Using our integrated science and more than 40 years of experience, we were able to offer a solution that not only addresses the military’s needs to ‘lighten the load,’ but also to better protect the lives of those who protect us.”

Developed under the Kevlar® XP™ platform, the increased bal-listic protection offered by Kevlar® XP™ for Hard Armor makes the new system usable in a variety of ballistic applications, including but not limited to military, law enforcement and homeland security segments.

The new product was developed at DuPont’s Armor Technology Center in Wilmington, Del. The patent-pending Kevlar® XP™ for Hard Armor is a combination of DuPont™ Kevlar® KM2 Plus fiber and a new thermoplastic resin that creates an entire matrix system, improving upon the original Kevlar® technology.

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Navistar Defense LLC [NAV] launched the International® MaxxPro® Tractor, a new variant in its family of Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles.

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The vehicle, which offers MRAP sur-vivability by incorporating an A kit / B kit cab, is on display this week at the Association of the United States Army (AUSA) Annual Meeting and Exposition, at the company booth 3931 in Hall C.

The MaxxPro Tractor MRAP allows two- to three-man crews to carry out sup-port missions with the same ballistics, mine and Improvised Explosive Devise (IED) protection used on all MaxxPro MRAP vehicles. The vehicle is powered by a MaxxForce® D 13L engine.

“All of the vehicle variants in the growing MaxxPro family are configured from one proven and reliable platform,” said Archie Massicotte, president, Navistar Defense. “The Navistar design maximizes the supportability and maintainability of these vehicles with a high degree of commonality of parts among all MaxxPro variants.”

Navistar also offers two other MRAP utility variants, the MaxxPro Cargo and the MaxxPro Recovery Vehicle. All three utility vehicles are built on the company’s flexible International® WorkStar® and utilize MaxxForce® D engines.

To date, Navistar has been contracted to produce more than 7,500 MaxxPro units as well as retrofit 1,222 units in theater with its DXM™ independent suspension solution.

MaxxPro vehicles are currently in operation with U.S. forces as well as with six coalition forces.Navistar Defense is an affiliate of Navistar International Corp. n

Navistar Defense LLC’s International® MaxxPro® Tractor

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